Archive for October 17, 2007

“In Egypt, “we didn’t choose Sadat, we didn’t choose Mubarak, and we’re not choosing the next one,” Zakaria Nahla, a 52-year-old salesman of cheap furniture, said in a Cairo market crowded with beeping scooters and veiled women picking through racks of clothes.”

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

Oral Roberts and Sex Education. (via counterpunch)

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Israel is the biggest polluter in the eastern Mediterranean, dumping over 140 tons of heavy metals into the sea every year with government approval, an environmental group claimed in a recently published report”

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“A bill to revoke the citizenship of people accused of betraying the state passed its first reading in the Knesset on Wednesday.”

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

Al-Quds Al-`Arabi is reporting that Mahmoud Abbas is investigating Faruq Qaddumi (the most senior Fath leader) because he committed “harm” to the person of Abbas. Has the Cedar Revolution move to Palestine, I wonder?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

Bashir Da`uq: dead. A touching tribute by Ma`n Bashshur for Bashir Ad-Da`uq. I don’t have time to write about Da`uq but he deserves mention. This London-trained economist returned to Lebanon and joined the Ba`th Party. But that was not his real contribution. His contribution was founding Dar At-Tali`ah and the journal Dirasat `Arabiyyah. The monthly [...]

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“There were slightly fewer press freedom violations in the United States (48th) and blogger Josh Wolf was freed after 224 days in prison. But the detention of Al-Jazeera’s Sudanese cameraman, Sami Al-Haj, since 13 June 2002 at the military base of Guantanamo and the murder of Chauncey Bailey in Oakland in August mean the United [...]

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

This is Lebanon. An Ethiopian domestic servant in Lebanon (born in 1986) tried to commit suicide in the village of Duwayr in South Lebanon by tying an electric cord around her neck. She was taken to the hospital and her employer took her to court because her suicide attempt cost her money.

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“esclavagemoderne”

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The few Palestinian families who were allowed into Nahr Al-Barid camp found these insults on their walls.

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Gala Dinner: Celebrating the U.S.-Israel Relationship”

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

An American reporter in Baghdad tells me that many of the members of the private “security companies” are–surprise, surprise–Lebanese, and some even brag about their background in the Lebanese Forces militia during the war.

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent a cable of condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on the death of Prince Khaled bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Saud. The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al [...]

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Eagleton, a 64-year-old intellectual, one of the world’s leading literary theorists, threw down a challenge calculated to inflame his younger adversary. Accusing Amis of Islamophobia for suggesting a clampdown on Muslims, he attacked the novelist’s late father Kingsley as “a racist, antisemitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and liberals”. Amis fils, he [...]

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“A composite image of Jean Charles de Menezes was doctored to make him look more like terrorist Hussain Osman, the Old Bailey heard today. The picture, containing half the face of innocent Brazilian Mr de Menezes and half the face of terrorist Osman was produced at the force’s Old Bailey trial.” (thanks Badis)

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Outside interference by Israel’s supporters has plunged one U.S. campus after another into crisis. They have introduced crudely political — rather than strictly academic or scholarly — criteria into hiring, promotion and other decisions at a number of universities, including Columbia, Yale, Wayne State, Barnard and DePaul, which recently denied tenure to the Jewish American [...]

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“What do you hope Washington will do? We all know that the Syrian regime is doing this. Action must be taken against Syria” (thanks N.)

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“As Turkey reacted angrily to the House committee action in the last few days, members began responding to arguments that the resolution posed a national security threat. Those arguments were put forth by the Bush administration, Mr. Livingston and another prominent lobbyist, Richard A. Gephardt, of Missouri, the former House majority leader and a Democrat.”

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Rudy Roughs Up Arabs”

Posted on October 17, 2007 by As'ad